The Forgotten Sea Lord

Emotions and War

For a minute silence hummed throughout the area, even thunder did nothing to break it. Perseus stared into Thalassa's eyes while she stared into his. A soft smile lit up on her face and Perseus couldn't help but think of how often he used to just stare at her. She was the first to break contact as she looked down at the ocean floor. Thunder finally broke the silence by cackling as lightning flashed on the surface of the water.

"I never meant to hurt you, you know" he said nothing for he seemed to have lost his ability to speak. At his blank look she flinched, she reached her arm out to touch Perseus but even when she did, he didn't react. Perseus remembered when he first met her and how he tried to take her power and the disbelief when she defeated him with ease. He remembered how a smirk had lit up her face at his shocked look and how she twirled her trident till it rested on her shoulders. She had turned her back to him as she told him in a soft voice that power was not always meant to be shown through brute force.

Flashbacks were the only thing he saw as on the outside he continued with his blank look. He remembered when he asked her to be his wife and when she accepted, he remembered the ceremony for the new Queen of the Seas. But most of all, he remembered the day she disappeared and his complete and utter heartbreak that made him non-responsive to the point where he just gave up his title as King of the Sea.

He was pushed back into the present as he looked at her familiar curly black hair that flowed down to her back like the waves of the ocean that they used to rule together. He looked down at the hand that grasped his arm and he couldn't help but think of how frail it looked when she inside she was the complete opposite of frail. He slowly reached his left hand up till it lay on the small, frail looking hand. A smile grew on her face that quickly broke as he grasped her hand and took it off of his arm. "Why did you vanish on me?" he asked her finally as his ability to speak coming back to him. He ignored how his voice cracked a little as if he were a mortal teenager even if he looked close to that age.

He let go of her hand and put his left hand down but as he did this his right hand had been sliding over to the sheath that lay on his waist. He did not want to fight but he had to be prepared if she was going to. "I didn't want to hurt you" she muttered it so softly he almost didn't hear it but he did and when he did, he felt reassured enough to remove his hand from the hilt of his pitch-black sword. He felt his conflicted emotions and looked up at the stormy sky instead of looking at her any longer. He was an emotional immortal and so he distracted himself by watching as lightning caked the clouds and thunder roared across them without a care of the people below. At this moment, he wished he was the thunder and lightning flying across the clouds without a care in the world.

But the world was harsh and so he was left having to care about all his problems, and all of his regrets. "You hurt me more when you left without a trace or word" he murmured as he brought his eyes back down to gaze harshly into hers. Perseus' felt mainly sadness that was quickly turning into anger like a volcano about to erupt. She flinched back even more as she now stood at a distance away from him. Perseus knew that this might be the hardest trial he may ever face simply do too the fact that love, no matter what anyone said was a powerful emotion.

It messed with your brain, messed with your feelings, it messed with everything you did or said. That was the reason he hated how smug Eros looked when Perseus had admitted he thought love was one of the most powerful things in the world. He hated how he could never truly understand the emotion, the feeling that came over him like a flash of light. He decided that the best course of action would be to do what he normally did and stop trying to think so hard and just be in the moment. He would not be caught in any fantasies about how maybe Thalassa could come with him as he honestly thought it was still too early to see her. So with the hope of getting it over with, he walked over to her and stood straight in front of her, ignoring how his heart reacted.. "I may not like that you vanished but right now I don't have time to deal with this." He raised his hand goodbye as he felt the familiar shock and numbness of the lightning hitting the water and speeding over to him and for once the feeling comforted him.